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The National Party and Labour Party have followed Act’s lead and attacked NZ First and Winston Peters in the final week of the campaign. The desperation is palpable. Now David Seymour has re-issued his threat to sit on the cross-benches and dictate what goes through the house
I was a, was a kamikaze pilot They gave me a plane, I couldn’t fly it home The Hoodoo Gurus The kamikaze have become the stuff of WWII legend: the fanaticism of these young Japanese suicide pilots and the terror they wreaked on ships’ crews who found themselves facing
‘Pinkwashing’, like ‘greenwashing’, usually refers to the sort of corporations who plaster their communications with rainbows during Pride Month, or Year, or whatever is the current tenure, when we’re supposed to pretend that obese middle-aged men in sequined g-strings dry-humping each other in the street in
Does anyone remember the reality TV show Karachi Cops? Those bad boys didn’t mess around. No KFC or ‘interventions’ for their suspects. If the perp doesn’t confess, then just beat the soles of their feet until they do. Now, the Pakistani government is likewise not messing around with
Are conservative parties finally waking up that chasing after the left, blubbering ‘Us, too, but in blue ties!’ isn’t exactly an election-winning strategy? Conviction, standing for something, anything, is key to winning elections. It’s not a guarantee, of course: you still have to convince the electorate that
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Nothing says desperation quite like concocting a scenario that has never happened in nine elections under MMP. Yet here we are, just six days out from the election, with National screaming and ranting that we could have a second election if they can’t do a deal with NZ First.
When misfortune strikes Ned Flanders, The Simpsons’ quintessential Charlie Church, he asks, in Job-like despair: why me, Lord? I’ve done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! Ned’s confusion is what awaits anyone who holds to the peculiar doctrine of Biblical literalism:
Tasmania is a small place. It’s hard to know anyone who doesn’t know someone else you know, or isn’t related to. (Yeah, yeah, I know: cue the ‘two heads’ jokes. I’ll just point out that large swathes of NZ have a higher kinship intensity than Tasmania.
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As Robert Bolt wrote, in A Man for All Seasons, when fanatically zealous inquisitors tear down all the rules to get even with the devil, they leave themselves dangerously exposed. “When the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, And the black folks hate the white folks … And everybody hates the Jews. Tom Lehrer, “National Brotherhood Week” It’s not remembered much today, but one of Denzel Washington’s fine early films was Mississippi Masala, a variation of the classic trope
